Okabe, Tomoko; Kyoji Maeda; Francois Cheval — Yuki Onodera

Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2010. Hardbound. Light gray boards with BW pictorial DJ, 216pp, profuse color and BW photographs. Signed by the photographer. Exhibition catalog. From the jacket--Epitomizing the dramatic new developments in Japanese photography emerging in the 1990s, Yuki Onodera is an internationally recognized photographer known for her mysterious and richly suggestive work. Based in Paris, Onodera focuses on the act of photography itself and has demonstrated a creative process driven by highly original and often fantastic ideas. Eight works from her first nine series--including "Portrait of Second-hand Clothes"--were published in Cameramachine (Suiseisha), which won the 28th Kimura Ihei Memorial Award of Photography in 2003. In 2006 she was awarded France's most prestigious honor for work in photography, the Prix Niepce. The present work includes 18 series and 211 prints, from her earliest to her most recent series, "12 Speed," offering a comprehensive look at two decades of the career of this remarkable artist. VG .